Ecclesiastes 3:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I perceive there is nothing better For a man's present satisfaction, and the happiness of this life; than that a man should rejoice in his own works That he should comfortably enjoy what God hath given him, and not disquiet himself with cares about future events. He seems to speak this not in the person of an epicure, but as his own judgment, which also he declares, Ecclesiastes 2:24; Ecclesiastes 5:18-19; Ecclesiastes 8:15. For that is his portion This is the benefit of his labours: he hath no more than he uses, for what he leaves behind him is not his, but another man's. For who shall bring him to see, &c. When once he is dead he shall never return to see into whose hands his estate falls, and how it is either used or abused; nor is he at all concerned in those matters.